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What does the abbreviation BCMS stand for?
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The abbreviation BCMS stands for Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian language. This term is a label of convenience used by linguists and philologists to describe the shared tongue employed by Bosniaks, Croats, Montenegrins, and Serbs.1